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Zakynthos minor arrested for knifepoint robbery
A 17-year-old youth has been arrested on Zakynthos for robbing a 30-year-old woman at knifepoint.
Athens to shut down cultural and sport facilities on Friday
Cultural and indoor sports facilities of the Municipality of Athens will remain closed on Friday, February 28, in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster.
SKY express cancels flights Friday due to air traffic controllers’ strike
SKY express has announced the cancellation of its flight schedule for this Friday.
Chevron has got Greek hydrocarbons report in its hands
US oil giant Chevron claims an area of 10,211 square kilometers in the southern Peloponnese for hydrocarbon surveying
Man seriously injured in shooting near Thessaloniki intercity bus station
One man was seriously injured in northern Greece on Tuesday afternoon when unknown assailants opened fire against two men in a car near a KTEL intercity bus station in Thessaloniki.
Three teens charged after beating classmate in Thessaloniki
The three 17-year-old boys were charged with grievous bodily harm and referred to a juvenile court for trial after they were accused of beating up a classmate in their schoolyard in Oreokastro, Thessaloniki, on Monday.
Romanian Black Sea offshore gas project gears up for drilling works
On a frigid morning on the Black Sea the sun is glaring into the quiet navigation room of the massive semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Barents, anchored in Romania's Constanta port.
A slice of Greece in the heart of Cambridge
Renowned for its imposing medieval architecture, cobbled streets, huge parks and namesake river, the Cam, Cambridge is home to one of the oldest educational institutions in the world – a giant of 30 independent colleges and 125 Nobel prizes that was founded in 1209 – and some 130,000 residents.
Prosecutor seeks guilty verdict for all defendants in 2023 ferry death
The prosecutor in the trial into the death of a 36-year-old man who drowned while trying to board a passenger ferry in Piraeus in September 2023 recommended on Tuesday the guilty verdict for all four defendants - the ship’s captain and three crew members.
Trump, Russia, and the possibility of a Ukraine deal
On the three year anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, Thomas Graham, a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the book Getting Russia Right, joins Thanos Davelis to look into what’s at stake today for Ukraine and the West.
Slow reflexes against island overdevelopment
Four years after launching an urban planning initiative, Greece’s Environment Ministry has issued a last-minute request for local municipalities to propose areas where construction should be suspended.
Gerapetritis to meet Rubio for key talks
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis is set to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday to discuss the new administration’s priorities regarding Greece and regional security.
Culture minister at The Met for return of ancient Greek bronze griffin
Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni attended a ceremony that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Monday for the repatriation of an ancient bronze griffin’s head to Greece.
TrainOSE workers to join mass strike on February 28
The unions of Hellenic Train, the Italian state-owned operator of Greece’s railways, said Tuesday they would be joining a 24-hour strike and mass protest rally called by umbrella unions to mark the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster this Friday.
US refuses to blame Russia for Ukraine war, splitting with EU allies in UN votes
In a dramatic shift in transatlantic relations under President Donald Trump, the United States split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three UN resolutions Monday seeking an end to the three-year war.
Operation: ‘Saturday Night Fever’
The new generation of real-time inspections at 29 major nightclubs in Athens and Thessaloniki brought results and revealed major pockets of tax evasion.
Seismic activity calming down in Santorini region
Seismic activity between Santorini and Amorgos continues to gradually subside, both in terms of daily frequency and maximum magnitude, according to the latest report from the Interdisciplinary Risk Management Committee of the University of Athens.
UK issues travel warning for Greece ahead of Tempe rally
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has warned UK travellers of “widespread disruption” to public services in Greece on February 28 due to large-scale protests across the country.
Countdown begins for contested sea surveys
Greece is moving forward with a long-planned electricity interconnection with Cyprus, despite Turkey’s objections. The project, involving France and Italy, is set to begin underwater surveys outside national waters, in areas contested by Ankara under the illegal Turkey-Libya maritime pact.
Skylakakis announces tender for hydrocarbon exploration south of Peloponnese
Greece’s minister of environment and energy, Thodoros Skylakakis, announced on Monday the international tender for the granting of hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation rights in the marine areas “A2” and “South of the Peloponnese,” in the southern Ionian Sea.